The government can’t take away your hard-earned crypto if you lost it forever.

you made a throwaway account to post this? Was this too hot a take for your real account ?

That account is actually a few days old.

My guess is that GP does the same as me. Create a throwaway account, use for a few weeks, then abandon it to create a new one.

This account I'm posting from is close to EOL, for example.

My account is 9 months old and definitely not a throwaway.

Why do that, though?

Edited to add, it's also against the HN guidelines:

"Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I didn’t and don’t do that. This account is 9 months old and my only account.

I was responding to grog_tremor.

I was unaware of the guidelines. For a long time I was only a lurker here.

I won't contribute any other way however. Perhaps I don't feel comfortable having an "identity others can relate to".

That said, off I go back to read-only mode. Arrivederci.

I do the same. Anonymity is important to some here and not others and I think that's fine, despite the guidelines.

This account isn’t a throwaway. It has 9 times the karma of your account.

> throwaway5959

Yes, that is my name. Doesn’t make this a throwaway account, just like your username doesn’t make you a microprocessor.